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About the Role

The Business & Solution Architect is a senior, enterprise-level role responsible for aligning business strategy with technology execution. This position works across business and technical domains to design and deliver scalable, end-to-end solutions that support organizational transformation and growth. This role translates complex business needs into actionable architecture designs and roadmaps, guiding implementation across applications, data, and cloud platforms while ensuring security, performance, and long-term sustainability. Partnering closely with stakeholders and delivery teams, the architect influences strategic direction, drives architectural governance, and ensures successful execution of large-scale initiatives. The ideal candidate combines strong business architecture expertise with deep technical knowledge and operates effectively in complex, cross-functional environments to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain enterprise business architecture, including capability models and business process frameworks.
Align business strategy, operating models, and technology investments.
Define and evolve business and technology roadmaps.
Analyze organizational needs and identify opportunities for transformation and optimization.
Apply structured business architecture methodologies and best practices.
Design end-to-end enterprise solutions across cloud platforms, applications, data and integration layers, and infrastructure and networking.
Translate business requirements into technical architecture and implementation designs.
Define application components, interfaces and integration patterns, and platforms and development tools.
Lead architecture for distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented environments.
Ensure alignment with security, scalability, performance, and operational requirements.
Develop and manage architecture roadmaps.
Support full lifecycle delivery including design, build, deployment, and optimization.
Partner with engineering and delivery teams to ensure successful implementation.
Optimize solutions for performance, cost, and scalability.
Conduct risk assessments and ensure adherence to quality and governance standards.
Communicate architecture vision and solutions to business stakeholders, technical teams, and executive leadership.
Act as a trusted advisor across business and technology domains.
Drive alignment to target architecture across stakeholders.
Mentor and guide architects, engineers, and analysts.
Lead cross-functional collaboration in complex environments.
Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies.
Introduce modern architecture practices and frameworks.
Improve architecture processes, tools, and governance.
Promote reuse of architecture artifacts as enterprise assets.

Requirements

10-15 years of experience in business and solution architecture.
Experience across enterprise, application, and information architecture.
Proven ability to operate at both strategic business level (capabilities, processes, operating models) and technical solution level (systems, applications, cloud architecture).
Hands-on experience designing and implementing large-scale enterprise solutions.
Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), security, and networking.
Experience with distributed systems, SOA, APIs, and modern application architectures.
Knowledge of AI concepts and interaction patterns, including agentic use cases.
Strong understanding of business processes, capability modeling, and transformation.
Experience aligning business strategy to technical delivery.
Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (financial services preferred).
Strong programming or development background.
Ability to translate business strategy into architecture and implementation roadmaps.
Experience developing business architecture artifacts (capability models, value streams, process flows) and technical architecture designs (application, data, integration, infrastructure).
Expertise in defining and managing functional and non-functional requirements and target-state enterprise architecture roadmaps.
Strong experience with cloud platforms and modern architecture patterns, workflow automation and process optimization, and architecture modeling tools and frameworks.
Ability to design end-to-end solutions across all architecture layers.
Strong communication skills with ability to convey complex concepts through diagrams, executive presentations, and documentation.
Strategic thinking with a systems mindset.
Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
Strong leadership and stakeholder management.
Ability to influence senior leadership and technical teams.
Ability to operate in complex, ambiguous environments.
Collaborative, cross-functional mindset.
Trusted advisor with strong decision-making ability.
Continuous learning and innovation mindset.
High integrity and accountability.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.

Skills

Business Architecture
Solution Architecture
Enterprise Architecture
Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Security
Networking
Distributed Systems
SOA
APIs
Modern Application Architectures
AI Concepts
Business Processes
Capability Modeling
Transformation
Technical Delivery
Regulatory Frameworks
Programming
Development
Workflow Automation
Process Optimization
Architecture Modeling Tools
Architecture Frameworks (TOGAF)
Ardoq

Location

New York
New Jersey

Work Type

Hybrid
On-site
Remote

Experience Level

Senior
10-15 years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent experience

Salary/Compensations

New York / New Jersey: $172k – $191k
Non–New York / New Jersey: $143k – $180k

Benefits

Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
Retirement plans
Educational assistance and training programs
Income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities
Paid maternity and parental bonding leave
Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays

About the Company

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups with 150,000 colleagues globally.
MUFG strives to make a difference for every client, organization, and community served.
The company stands for its values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.
MUFG's vision is to be the world's most trusted financial group.
It is part of MUFG's culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas, and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed, and agility.
MUFG invests in talent, technologies, and tools that empower employees to own their careers.

Equal Opportunity

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.